New Jersey Powerhouse: Chiesa Shahinian

By George Woolston

Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC spent the last year meeting the deadline to close Netflix's billion-dollar investment to build a state-of-the-art production facility, guiding Maher Terminals to a landmark 33-year lease extension with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and securing wins in some of the Garden State's highest-profile cases.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »

States Settle Challenge Of Paramount's Warner Bros. Deal

By Matthew Perlman

State enforcers suing to block Paramount Skydance's planned $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery reached a settlement on Monday to end the case with a package of concessions.

2 documents attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

NJ Court Backs Arbitration Award Against Concrete Co.

By Katherine Smith

A New Jersey federal court on Monday upheld an arbitration award ordering a concrete supplier to rehire an employee who was fired after he tested positive for marijuana, rejecting the company's claim that an arbitrator exceeded her authority when issuing the award.

Opinion attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Ex-NJ Utility Worker Gets 3 Years For False Water Reports

By Carla Baranauckas

A former employee of the water utility for Trenton, New Jersey, was sentenced to three years in state prison after admitting he falsified water testing records and failed to collect required samples while working for the public utility, New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport said Monday.

Indictment attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Combs' Attys Call Him 'Difficult' In Bid To Exit Rape Suit

By James Boyle

Attorneys from Sher Tremonte LLP are asking a New Jersey federal court to let the firm withdraw from a civil suit against Sean Combs, saying the mogul has failed to pay a "substantial balance" of legal fees and has been uncooperative, rendering representation "unreasonably difficult."

Motion attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Ex-NJ AG Platkin Says Suit Over RICO Case Still Falls Short

By Jake Maher

Former New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin says an amended malicious prosecution complaint against him, filed by a former CEO indicted in a now-dismissed racketeering case against South Jersey power broker George Norcross, still misses the mark.

2 documents attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Moderna Says Sanofi Wants To 'Unjustly Profit' In Vax IP Suit

By Dani Kass

Sanofi's patent infringement suit against Moderna is an attempt to "unjustly profit" from the latter's COVID-19 vaccines after Sanofi was unable to produce its own, Moderna has told a New Jersey federal court.

1 document attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

NJ Firm Says Communications Off-Limits In Defamation Case

By George Woolston

Investigative firm Black Cube has pushed back against a gambling technology company's bid to vacate a special adjudicator's denial of discovery into certain communications between Black Cube and law firm Calcagni & Kanefsky LLP, arguing the bid doesn't satisfy the discovery standard under New Jersey's anti-SLAPP law.

Brief attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

3rd Circ. Upholds 'Pattern' Penalty For Child Rapist

By Parker Quinlan

The Third Circuit ruled Monday that a Pennsylvania man who kidnapped and sexually abused a child multiple times qualifies for a pattern crimes enhancement, ruling that although the crimes occurred over a matter of hours, they qualified as separate events.

Opinion attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Legal Deserts: Millions Across America Struggle To Access Lawyers

Tens of millions of Americans live in towns and counties across the nation with limited or no access to legal services. By one estimate, at least a third of the nation's counties qualify as a "legal desert," having only one or no attorney per 1,000 residents. Roughly 24 million Americans reside in these counties.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Greenberg Traurig Hit With Action Over Client Data Breach

By Matt Perez

A proposed class of Greenberg Traurig LLP clients said the New York law firm failed to secure their personal data prior to a preventable data breach and delayed notifying clients of the breach for two weeks, in an action filed over the weekend in New York federal court seeking injunctive and other equitable relief to protect client data.

Complaint attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Tesla Atty Misled Witness Days Before Bias Trial, Judge Hears

By Dorothy Atkins

The California Civil Rights Department asked a California judge for a protective order Monday on the first day of a bench trial over claims Tesla Inc. fostered racism at its Fremont factory, after a witness testified that an in-house Tesla attorney recently called him and misled him into believing he represented the agency.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »

New Calif. Law Bars Legal Funders From Influencing Litigation

By Jack Karp

Corporate investors and litigation funders will be barred from influencing litigation strategy in California under a new bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Bill attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Q&A

She Has A Point: Fenwick's Jessica Kaempf

By Theresa Schliep

Jessica Kaempf of Fenwick & West LLP is a pragmatic yet tenacious attorney whose representation of her clients has earned her plaudits from Kathi Vidal of Winston Taylor, who praised Kaempf as part of a Law360 series celebrating women litigators.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »

$1.35M Class Deal Reached Over Botched Calif. Bar Exam

By Emily Johnson

Takers of the February 2025 California bar exam that was marred by technical failures have agreed to settle their proposed class action against the proctor for $1.35 million, while the company also agreed to complete quality checks before proctoring future bar examinations, according to a motion seeking preliminary approval in federal court.

Motion attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Ex-Prosecutor Escapes Jan. 6 Atty's Defamation Suit

By Jared Foretek

Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann on Monday won judgment on the pleadings in a defamation case brought by attorney Stefan Passantino, who had represented Cassidy Hutchinson, after Passantino alleged Weissmann had defamed him when saying he'd "coached" Hutchinson "to lie" to the January 6th Select Committee.

Memorandum attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week dismissed a challenge to Alteryx Inc.'s $4.4 billion take-private sale, resolved a fight over the removal of a security technology company's director and declined to let Empery Digital Inc. immediately appeal a proxy contest ruling.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »